In 1899 Dr. Denslow Lewis read a paper at a meeting of the American Medical Association, entitled “The Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act,” at the invitation of the Program Committee. The Journal of the American Medical Association refused to publish it because of its “sexual content.” Obviously, it was a subject whose time had [...]
Bisexualism and bisexuality are synonyms. In established usage, one may speak of the morphologic bisexuality of the embryo or of psychosexual bisexuality of the child or adult. In the Freudian and psychoanalytically derived theory of bisexualism, it is implied that a bisexual tendency lurks covertly, if not overtly, in all people. However, by analogy with [...]
Both when a woman selects a nontraditional career goal and when she attempts to pursue it, powerful discriminatory forces can come into play. First we will consider the factors inhibiting the choice of nontraditional career goals, then the barriers impeding the realization of these goals.
Which career to choose or what to do when one “grows [...]
Although anthropologists have always been interested in sexuality, they have not always been interested in studying it. A review of the pioneering works of Lewis Henry Morgan, the unilinear evolutionist, and Robert Lowie, an early critic of evolutionary theory, demonstrate this.
Morgan proposed a fifteen-stage evolutionary “in part hypothetical” sequence from a prefamilial stage of “promiscuous [...]
Among groups, with few exceptions, men regard marital sex as a natural right, to be sampled regularly and enjoyed. As with orgasm, the data for women are more variable. Rainwater, in his study of marital relations in four cultures of poverty, found a range of responses to questions on interest and enjoyment of marital sex [...]